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Re: Please, Help with Capitals

What would be the context? I believe the phrase public garden would be used more often in England than here in the United States. In most cases we would use "park" unless it is specifically a botanical garden.

Re: Please, Help with Capitals

Doing a quick internet search, there is a park in Boston called "Public Garden", but normally in the U.S. a public garden is a community gardern - a plot of land where members of the community may plant flowers and vegetables - another word for it would be a cooperative garden.

Re: Please, Help with Capitals

Originally Posted by luschen

What would be the context? I believe the phrase public garden would be used more often in England than here in the United States. In most cases we would use "park" unless it is specifically a botanical garden.

In town squares the garden in the middle, the garden space can be a private or public garden depending on the access rights in the UK I think.

Re: Please, Help with Capitals

Under public garden I meant a small community garden, not where flowers and various plants grow, but where there are a lot of trees, where people can walk and have a rest. Interestingly that the thesaurus I use (in my language, of course) gives the equivalent in English, which is square. So, maybe you say town square or city square instead of public garden?

Re: Please, Help with Capitals

Originally Posted by Mary Bright

Under public garden I meant a small community garden, not where flowers and various plants grow, but where there are a lot of trees, where people can walk and have a rest. Interestingly that the thesaurus I use (in my language, of course) gives the equivalent in English, which is square. So, maybe you say town square or city square instead of public garden?

Community garden is NOT a park. It's a small collection of plots where people from an urban community plant vegetables and stuff.